Japan poised to shift huge investment, factories from China to India

Special to WorldTribune.com

Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com

Japanese investment in China last year exceeded $70 billion. There are 14,000 Japanese companies in China.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

But that may be about to change because Japan is poised to leave China for India, adding huge benefits to the South Asian country in terms of jobs creation, technological transfer, transformation of infrastructure and military partnership.

“Japan wants to build up India as an alternative, economic and military, to China,” bluntly stated the Hindustan Times.

“[Japan’s PM] Abe seems to want to use Japan’s capacities to enhance Indian power and make it a genuine geopolitical balancer to the Middle Kingdom.”

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